Author: Justin Sherrill

I think I find these link collections most satisfying when I have can point at history, opinion, and “oddity” links all at the same time.

• PalaeoGames.  “Scientifically accurate content for your palaeontology-themed tabletop role playing game”.  Dungeons and Dragons Dinosaurs.  (via)
• The power we use and the power we give.  (via)
• Related: Meta’s Cyber Necrocide.  (via)
• Open Source is one person.  (via)  Insert XKCD cartoon here; you know which one.
• Before Macintosh: The Apple Lisa, YouTube.  (via)
• Aseprite, a pixel art / sprite animation tool.  (via)
• 16 Pixel Dungeon, a game.  (via)
• Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan on Rust, Distros and NixOS.  (via)
• Discuss.systems: Discussion of computer systems research & practice.
• Previous link comes from Rob Ricci’s Are We Decentralized Yet?
• ded, a variant on ed(1).  (via)
• Which means I have to bring up Ed Mastery, the book.
• The Fortean Times is still running!  It is crazy.  (via)

A couple of these links are from previous weeks, saved because I already had more time-dependent links to post.  Still good!

• Filtered for bottom-up global monitoring.
• I mentioned Bill Atkinson’s death a while back – he also invented a superior dithering method, which I only found out by accident, and I suspect it may find new use locations.
• A real PowerBook: the Macintosh Application Environment on a PA-RISC laptop.  Classic MacOS inside a PA-RISC / CDE? machine is a combo I have never seen before.
• Those Titles the AI Bot Thought I Had Written.
• ChatGPT agent’s user-agent.  Bing and Yandex both indexing your work, with no opt-out.
• 11 Preliminary Orbits Around Planet Lem by the Quay Brothers.  (via)
• I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream: The 30 Year Late Review.  I almost don’t believe this exists.
• Programmers Aren’t So Humble Anymore—Maybe Because Nobody Codes in Perl.
• Pimping my Casio: Part Deux.  (via)
• Bag of words, have mercy on us.
• Simone’s webdesktops.  Fun just to fiddle with.  (via)

This week is the right level of esoteric.

• WWVB, the radio protocol for time synch.  I knew this existed as a concept but not the details.  (via, via)
• Digital hygiene.  The work/home separation is an underappreciated idea.  (via)
• Frame of preference: A history of Mac settings, 1984–2004.  Those are active, working, embedded Mac emulators on the web page.  (via)
• If you are able, use the tools you’ve got.
• John Stezaker, collage artist.  Here’s my favorite one I’ve seen.  (via)
• The Shape of the Heavens.  “Pity the poor d12”
• The History of Electronic Music in 476 Tracks (1937–2001).  (via)
• Introducing CaptchaStash.  (via)
• The Library of Congress publishes an updated “recommended formats” for data, which seems as authoritative a resource as it could be.
• A reminder you can log into various historic UNIX systems right now thanks to the ICM and SDF.
• BYO TRMNL.